Podcast Link: SGEM Xtra Eve Date: July 23rd, 2015 The SGEM is a knowledge translation (KT) project with a goal of cutting the KT windows down from over ten years to less than one year. During the summer months SGEMers will receive extra content. These are part of the SGEM Xtra series. The standard high quality, clinically relevant, evidence based, critical reviews of the recent literature will returning...

Podcast Link: SGEM Xtra Hot or Not Date: July 23rd, 2015 The Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM) is knowledge translation (KT) project trying to cut the KT window down from over ten years to less than one year. The SGEM is always trying to improve this KT project so you can provide your patients with the best care, based on the best evidence. Each week the SGEM does a structured critical...

Podcast Link: SGEM Xtra Alia Date: July 10th, 2015 The SGEM is a knowledge translation (KT) project with a goal of cutting the KT windows down from over ten years to less than one year. During the summer months SGEMers will receive extra content. These are part of the SGEM Xtra series. The standard high quality, clinically relevant, evidence based, critical reviews of the recent literature will returning...

Podcast Link: SGEM126 VTE Date: July 2nd, 2015 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Jeffrey Kline (@klinelab) is the Vice Chair of Research in Emergency Medicine and a professor of physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine. Most of you probably know him as the origin of the PERC Rule. His diagnostic research interests focus on human affect analysis, pretest probability and capnography to reduce medical imaging....

Podcast Link: SGEM125 Date: June 20th, 2015 The goal of the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM) is to shorten the knowledge translation window from over ten years down to less than one year. It accomplishes this by doing a critical appraisal of a recently published article using the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) process. BEEM has the only validated audience rating tool in...

It has been one year since the first issue of Journal of Rural Emergency Medicine (JREM) was released in June 2014. The JREM Editorial Board has been working diligently to put together the second issue since we released that first issue. We are pleased to announce JREM Issue #2 is ready. We hope that you enjoy this issue that includes both original research, reviews, and commentary that are pertinent to...

Podcast Link: SGEM124 Little Bones Date: June 11th, 2015 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Greg Hall. Greg is Director of EM Ultrasound at the Brantford General Hospital in Brantford Ontario and Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University. He is Vice President of the Canadian Emergency Ultrasound Society, co-author of Point-of-care Ultrasound for Emergency Physicians, co-creator of the EDE 2 Course: Advanced...

Podcast Link: SGEM123 Date: June 1st, 2015 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anthony Crocco. Anthony is the Division Head and Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at McMaster University. He is also known as a RANTer and a SketchEBM kind of guy. Case: Thirteen year-old boy twists his leg at school. He presents to the emergency department with a laterally displaced patella. Prior to reduction of the dislocated...

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Podcast Link: SGEM Xtra Eve Date: July 23rd, 2015 The SGEM is a knowledge translation (KT) project with a goal of cutting the KT windows down from over ten years to less than one year. During the summer months...

Podcast Link: SGEM Xtra Hot or Not Date: July 23rd, 2015 The Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM) is knowledge translation (KT) project trying to cut the KT window down from over ten years to less...